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A man-made disease: Fetal neonatal alloimmune thrombocytopenia due to incompatibility between oocyte donor and gestational mother.
Pediatric blood & cancer - 1 Aug 2017
Barg Assaf Arie, Ifrah Aviya Dvir, Strauss Tzipi, Simchen Michal J, Orvieto Raoul, Rosenberg Nurit, Kenet Gili
Abstract excerpt
The incompatibility causing fetal and neonatal alloimmune thrombocytopenia (FNAIT) results from a fetus inheriting a paternal human platelet antigen (HPA), which is different from the maternal HPA. We present a unique case of FNAIT in a pregnancy involving an oocyte recipient mother with Turner syndrome. This is the first report of FNAIT in which the suggested mechanism involves antibodies produced by a...
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